Don’t eat seafood, don’t swim in the ocean. Problem solved. The risk from doing so is very small but not zero. Avoid these activities and the risk returns to the same level it was befor March 2011. People have NO idea how small a Bequerel is....and the amounts being found are measured in fractions of a Bq. If you or anyone you know ever had a perfusion heart scan due to chest pain they received a dose of radioactive technetium.
A typical dose for this procedure is 1,480,000,000 Bequerels.
Don’t eat seafood, don’t swim in the ocean. Problem solved.
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Since the ocean deposits salt and other minerals on the rocks and shoreline, why wouldn’t contaminates end up on our beaches and being blown with sand inland?
Excellent frame of reference!
I once worked at a nuclear power plant during a refueling outage. I did one job inside the containment building. My total exposure for the 6 week job was about 1/3 received by an airline flight crew over the course of a year.
Sure, that's an annual rate about 3 times the flight crew, but then again, I didn't do that constantly and for 20 or 30 years.
A bit of perspective always helps. I'd guess the three nuclear medicine stress tests, barium enema and a few upper GI radiological scans far exceed the nuclear power plant.
Do you have a link or chart comparing other routine medical procedures?
Is a "Nuclear Medicine Stress Test" the same as a "perfusion heart scan"?
Oh sure, no problem. The oceans, shorelines, and the life they contain are only half of the very best things on earth.